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The new company will spe- cialize in financing export trans- actions worldwide, especially to developing markets like South America and Eastern Europe. BB Aval specializes in financing short- and long-term export transactions, as well as provision of foreign trade insurance cover- age. Tadiran, Exide Sign Battery Deal Jerusalem (JPFS) — Tadiran said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Ex- ide Corporation for the joint pro- duction of lithium batteries. Exide, based in Michigan, is the world leader in manufactur- ing and marketing starting, lighting, ignition and industrial lead acid batteries. It has a mar- ket share of 40 percent, accord- ing to Tadiran. Tadiran said the two sides plan strategic cooperation that would combine Tadiran's tech- nology and research and devel- opment capabilities with Exide's worldwide marketing organiza- tion. The terms of the agreement have not yet been set. Tadiran said it had invested $20 million in developing the batteries and another $10 mil- lion in building an automated production line capable of turn- ing out about 8 million batteries annually. The lightweight batteries have a life span of more than 10 years, and are designed for use in cel- lular telephones, medical equip- ment and military hardware. Jordan Keeps Airport Open Jerusalem (JPFS) — Domestic flights would continue to land at the Eilat Airport, and not at the proposed Israeli-Jordanian air- port to be established at Akaba, according to a draft agreement drawn up recently. Eilat Mayor Gabi Kadosh and Aharon Dekel, chairman of the Eilat Hotel Association, who both favor keeping the Eilat Airport, had feared that during his visit to Jordan, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would yield to Jordanian pressure to redirect all flights to Eilat to the proposed joint airport. However, the Transport Min- istry announced that Ministry Director-General Nahoum Lan- gental had gained Jordanian ac- ceptance of a draft agreement which would reserve the joint air- port for international flights, while the Eilat Airport, located in the center of town, would con- tinue to serve domestic flights. Upon his return from Jordan, Mr. Langental announced that the building of the joint airport could begin in a matter of months. According to the agree- ment, the airfield itself is to be in Jordan, with the connecting Is- raeli terminal on Israeli territo- ry. Two subcommittees are to deal with the air rights of the two countries and the establishment of a joint company to operate the airport. Contract Set On Solar Power Jerusalem (JPFS) — U.S. aero- space giant McDonnell Douglas, along with Ormat Industries, Rotem Industries and the Weiz- mann Institute's Yeda Research and Development Company in the United States, have won a $5.3 million contract to demon- strate within three years the commercial feasibility of an ad- vanced solar-power plant capa- ble of producing tens of megawatts of electricity, the Weizmann Institute of Science reported. The contract was awarded by the U.S.-Israel Science and Tech- nology Commission. The collab- oration agreement was signed at the U.S. Space and Rocket Cen- ter in Huntsville, Ala. The system, developed by the Weizmann Institute, uses spe- cial optics and an innovative air receiver to reflect, focus and con- vert sunlight, raising tempera- tures high enough to directly power gas and steam turbines in a combined cycle to generate elec- tricity. The option of using either sun, gas or a combination of the two guarantees power even un- der cloudy skies. Market assessments conduct- ed recently suggest the potential for applications around the world is broad. The U.S.-Israeli team will de- velop an operational 200 to 300 kilowatt system to be located at the Rehovot institute's solar re- search facility (called the Cana- dian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research). Highly reflective mirrors, called he- liostats, will track the sun and reflect it up to another mirror lo- cated on a central tower. This re- flector will send the sunlight back down to a matrix of optical de- vices able to concentrate the light so that it becomes 5,000 to 10,000 times more powerful than nat- ural sunlight reaching earth.